1 Corinthians 11:14
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
KJV
οὐδὲ ἡ φύσις αὐτὴ διδάσκει ὑμᾶς ὅτι ἀνὴρ μὲν ἐὰν κομᾷ ἀτιμία αὐτῷ ἐστιν,
Greek NT
Nec ipsa natura docet vos, quod vir quidem si comam nutriat, ignominia est illi :
Vulgate
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?
ASV
Doth not even nature itself teach you that a man indeed, if he nourish his hair, it is a shame unto him?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
13 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
διδάσκω
didasko
verb · 97×
εἰμί
eimi
verb · 2461×
κομάω
komao
verb · 2×
μέν
men
particle · 177×
οὐδέ
oude
conjunction · 137×
φύσις
phusis
noun · 14×
ἀνήρ
aner
noun · 216×
ἀτιμία
atimia
noun · 7×
ἐάν
ean
conditional · 333×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
minor
SBLGNT: οὐδὲ | WH/Treg/NIV: οὐδὲ | RP: ἢ οὐδὲ
- οὐδὲ — SBLGNT
- οὐδὲ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἢ οὐδὲ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
minor
SBLGNT: ἡ φύσις αὐτὴ | WH/Treg/NIV: ἡ φύσις αὐτὴ | RP: αὐτὴ ἡ φύσις
- ἡ φύσις αὐτὴ — SBLGNT
- ἡ φύσις αὐτὴ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- αὐτὴ ἡ φύσις — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Homilies on the First Epistle to the Corinthians · 2 passages
2. Thus having, you see, recovered and raised up by this common example him who thought himself depreciated, again he leaves the topic of common experience, and comes to another, a spiritual one, bringing greater consolation and indicative of great equality of honor. What then is this? 1 Corinthians 12:13 For in one Spirit, says he, were we all baptized into one body, whether J…
2. But besides these things, he also shames them by consideration of what all agreed on, and what was every where prescribed; which topic also here he has set down, saying, 1 Corinthians 14:36 What? Was it from you that the word of God went forth? Or came it unto you alone? Thus he brings in the other Churches also as holding this law, both abating the disturbance by considerat…
Cross-references
- 2Sam 14:26 — And when he polled his head, (for it was at every year’s end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it:) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels after
- Ezek 44:20 — Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.